St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-08
Mr.. LOWRYS WORD FOR IT
The Street Railway Company President
Speaks of the Cable.
GEARS TO BE RUNNING SOON"
But Three Days More Of Good Weather
Needed---A Heavy Forfeit
Due.

Col. Thomas Lowry came to st. Paul
from Minneapolis yesterday to see how
his plant of street cars is getting on and
what progress has been made on the ca
bic during his months visit in the East.
He was Hwell satisfied with both, ap-
parently, for there was smile mantling
his rosy cheeks when he boarded the
Short line train for the mill city, which
was not entirely dispelled when,
in the course of an interview, a GLOBE
reporter limited to him that there had
been some shadows of kick from st.
Paul people over the delay in getting
the cable into working form.
''After looking the ground over do
you think the cable will be running this
year?" asked the GLOBE man.
Il am sure it WILL" said the cheerful
millionaire. "There are but about two
more blocks of concrete to be laid, and
then all that is necessary to complete it
is the paving between the tracks. The
weather cuts some figure, but with
three days more of warm weather the
work will be in such condition that it
can be completed, no matter what the
weather is. If it were necessary the
cars could be set going before the space
between the tracks is paved. Yes, l
feel sure that the cable cars will be
worked this winter, and that in a few
days, too. Nobody wants to see them
going more than the company does, for
it is a matter of dollars and cents"
''How about that forfeit for not COM
pleting the work on schedule timer
asked the reporter.
''The company constructing the line
is held in a forfeit of $500 day for
Il o. 4 xr-hn hn
tract called for the completion" replied
Mr.. Lowry. THAT forfeit still goes
and the street car company can enforce
it. We know, however, that there were
many unavoidable delays, and are not
disposed to be hard on the contractors,
or to do anything unreasonable in the
matter, but it's money tor them as well
as us to get cable cars going this fall"
81 received request from the cham
Der of commerce committee TO come to
st. Paul for a discussion of street car
transportation in general. l am willing
to come down any time and discuss
these matters. There is all winter be-
fore us now to make plans for extern
sions, though it is too late to lay any
more rails this year."
Mr.. Lowry said in the course of the
conversation, that business East was
good; that there were no signs of panic;
that the elections to-day seemed to have
stirred up an unusual amount of talk,
and that he hoped the seven Chicago
anarchists would be hanged until they
very very, very dead.
THE DELAY IN PAYMENTS.
1t was stated in the Dispatch last
evening toat a great deal of trouble had
OccaSiOned the officials of the cable
company on account of their failure to
pay off 100 discharged men. 1t was also
said that one of the contractors had his
horse and carriage forcibly seized yes
terday morning, and the timely arrival
of the police prevented the crowd from
using him roughly.
A GLOBE reporter called upon Mr.;
Lloyd, the superintendent, at his rooms
in the Merchants hotel last evening and
asked him regarding the report.
at is all lie" said he. ''YOu see
we have 100 men on the payroll and
it takes some little time to make up
these rolls. Wehave lot of men work
ing for us, who, when their money is
due, if we are not on the ground to give
it to them at the moment, they begin
Squealing. Look here and see part
refutation of the lie," and he waved a
large check book, already filled out
with which to pay the men. i,
About those 100 men we discharged.
The work they had been hired to do
was finished, and we couldn't use them
any longer. We paid them as fast as
they possibly could be paid, but they
are too hOggish, unreasonable and ignOr-
ant to give us the required time. We
paid off 500 on Friday, about $50 on
Saturday and the same number to-day"